Chronologically organized, "The Western Humanities" presents the cultural achievements of western civilization - art, music, history, literature, theater, film and the other arts - within their historical context. By examining the historical and material conditions that influenced the form and content of the arts and literature, the authors provide students a deeper understandi...(展开全部)

罗伊·T·马修斯（Roy T. Matthews)，美国密歇根大学荣休人文与历史教授。 德维特·普拉特（DeWitt Platt），美国密歇根大学荣休人文与历史教授。 托马斯·F·X·诺布尔（Thomas F. X. Noble），美国圣母大学历史教授，美国天主教历史学会主席，研究领域为古代鱼中世纪时期。

This chronologically organized introduction to the Western humanities (art, music, history, literature, and drama) establishes the historical context of each era before the arts are discussed. More than 600 illustrations appear throughout the text, "Personal Perspectives" boxes bring to life the events of the day, and brief sections at the end of each chapter describe the cultu...(展开全部)

2005年第7版

杰克逊•J.斯皮瓦格尔（Jackson J.Spielvogel），美国宾西法尼亚州立大学历史学荣退副教授，曾师从著名宗教改革史家哈罗德•格里姆（Harold J. Grimm）。专长神圣罗马帝国、宗教改革史和德国史的研究，并且长期致力于西方文明的通史教学与教材编写。他最早在宾州开设“西方文明史”课程，先后共获五次重大教学奖，其中包括宾州大学最具殊荣的教学基金奖——宾州教学奖。他撰写西方文明史及其他世界史教科书，多次再版，被美国各大院校广泛采用。

This 2006 book is a detailed and authoritative account of the last two centuries of the development of 'Western' medicine, a tradition now important everywhere in the world. It is written by leading experts who not only describe the most important people, events, and transformations, but give explanations for why medicine developed as it did, becoming as important as it has in ...(展开全部)

This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the Russian Revolution in the East in the early 1920s. It focuses particularly on the work of Luk cs, Korsch and Gramsci; Adorno, Marcuse and Benjamin; Sartre and Althusser; and Della Volpe...(展开全部)

What is landscape? How does it differ from 'land'? Does landscape always imply something to be pictured, a scene? When and why did we begin to cherish images of nature? What is 'nature'? Is it everything that isn't art, or artefact? This book explores many fascinating issues raised by the great range of ideas and images of the natural world in Western art since the Renaissance....(展开全部)

保罗•亨利•朗（Paul HenryLang，1901--1991）原籍匈牙利。少年时代曾学习大管、研习作曲，但天生多方面的文化兴趣使他最终转向音乐学。青年时代，眼看右翼政治势力上台，社会形势恶化，同时受到作曲家、民族音乐学家贝拉•巴托克的鼓励，转道去德国海德堡大学（学习音乐学、比较文学和文化史）和法国巴黎大学（学习文学、音乐学、艺术史和美学）求学。虽然最后的博士学位在美国康奈尔大学获得，但整体的知识背景和思想基础均源自欧洲。这种对西方（尤其是欧洲）文化传统全方位的透彻了解和博闻强记其实是他日后撰写《西方文明中的音乐》的直接前奏。